Is Bush doing his best to do a John Kerry impression? When you figure that Muqtada is now more popular with Iraqis than Bush is with Americans and Iraqi wedding attendees are massacred by our own and Chalabi wants America out of Iraq, you begin to wonder who is who coming this November. Is it Bush morphing into Kerry or Kerry winning office would be no worse than Bush? And Iraq sovereignty is coming this June 30th. Sounds more like a summer-sizzling horror flick block buster.

In fact, it is so depressing, it has kept me from blogging. No, I don't need hand holding. Optimists irritate me. But why should I fret anyway since I'm not voting for Bush because he wants to push the God damned Musgrave Family Marriage Amendment? And I would rather die in a terrorist attack than vote for Kerry, which is rather redundant because voting for him would be somewhat the same thing. I've entered a thorough political paralysis/analysis. Now we have Bush trying to rally the "troops" in Washington. This is Bush at his absolute worst. Just what is he trying to do?

At a closed-door meeting described by some as a pep rally, Bush vowed to "stay the course" and do what is right for America, prompting lawmakers to shower him with ovations, Republicans said afterward. A top Democrat fired back by calling Bush incompetent.

"He asked us to keep the faith," Rep. Deborah Pryce of Ohio, a member of the Republican leadership, said as she emerged from the meeting. "We're all behind him."

"Stay the course." "Keep the faith." Sounds like a Carter fireside chat on TV back in the day. This rhetoric is so pale and unconvincing it is the oratorical equivalent of John Kerry's botox-challenged face. All droopy and without soul. The Democrats are always this boring being that their last great statesman was Kennedy (which, not coincidently, is the last time the Democrats really believed in America), but Bush surely knows how to bottom feed with the rest who graduated from the school of pabulum.

More feedback from Bush's pep talk.

"This has been a rough couple of months for the president, particularly on the issues of Iraq, and I think he was here to remind folks that we do have a policy and this policy is going to be tough," said Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa. "Things, as I think he commented, are very likely to get worse before they get better."

Ah yes, the anti-sodomite Santorum trying to cover Bush's ass, so to speak. That's a real disclaimer, huh? "Remind folks" of how tough the policy is going to be. If only Bush took his own policy seriously enough. Wait! Here's more good news for Bush:

Chalabi said he was asleep at the time of the raid on his home.

"I opened the door. The police went into my room carrying pistols. I told them to get out." He said a gunbattle between his guards and the policemen was avoided by a "hair's breadth."

Well, at least the Americans are good at rounding up Chalabi since they have a problem getting hold of Muqtada or, for that matter, Osama. Though I must say, getting a hold of Zarqawi, who slowly sawed off Nick Berg's head, would be frying bigger fish.

At this point, it makes no difference to me who wins in November. It really doesn't. If Bush fails to get back up again and lead this war and, instead, continues to play hide and seek with the American public and he loses in November, he will have deserved it. Those who support the president in this war are being left out in the cold. Where is he? Where are the speeches? The propaganda? Why is Giuliani more eloquent when standing up to the god awful 9/11 families who sick and tire me with their public breast-beating whine fest (and thus dishonoring 9/11 survivors who suffer, appropriately, in private)?

Next week Bush gives a pep talk to the American people. Let's see what he comes up with and how he comes across.

In any case, if he resumes being the man he should be and wins, let's hope for a loss for the Republicans in Congress. That way, we can have Santorum get off my ass, keep the far right at bay, and have a man in office who doesn't want to pull a Nixon.